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Former Dancers Say The UK’s Top Ballet Schools Constantly Body-shame Students

More than 50 former students told the BBC about issues, saying they had developed eating disorders, "while some said they had been left with mental health problems." - BBC

The Movie ‘Poor Things’ Wins At Venice

Emma Stone is Frankenstein's monster, but a feminist one. - Globe and Mail (Canada)

What’s Scarier, Doing A One-Woman Show Or Riding A Coney Island Roller Coaster?

Ask actor Rachel Brown (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), who's performing in a show about existential dread for work, and riding for fun. - The New York Times

Did Yeats Ever Say The Quote Engraved On Dublin Marathon Finishers’ Medal?

Twenty thousand finishers of the marathon are set to receive a medal reading, "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet." - LitHub

What We Look Like When We Look At Art

It's not all selfies: "People are still engaging, if only for a moment, with what’s hung on the wall or placed in courtyards and parks." - Oregon ArtsWatch

What Hollywood Folks Are Doing To Make Ends Meet

Hand-cutting 3D-printed houses for snow globes, giving Hebrew lessons, living with their parents ... and walking their unions' picket lines. - NPR

Drew Barrymore’s Show Is Going Ahead Without Guild Writers

She writes, "I want to be there to provide what writers do so well, which is a way to bring us together or help us make sense of the human experience." What that has to do with writers and actors on strike, no one knows (but the writers are picketing). - Vulture

Is Google Search Now Just Sneaky, Janky Ad-Filled Spyware?

Possibly! The trial starts Tuesday. - Wired

The Artist Using Coloring Books To Push Back On How We Understand Punishment

Sable Elyse Smith:"The system itself is insistent. The fact that these things persist and keep developing and repeating themselves, kind of replicating the next generation." - Los Angeles Times

Balanchine Thought His Ballets Would Dissipate Quickly

Instead, "they have become classics, cornerstones of the international repertory, ... danced everywhere by all the major ballet companies and most of the minor ones, too." - The New York Times

Novelist Lauren Groff Writes Several Novels At A Time

She writes them in longhand - twice, the second draft without referring to the first draft - and sometimes in iambic pentameter "just for fun." - The New York Times

Mural Artists In Australia Are Losing Insurance For Working On Walls

It's OK to paint a short wall, or install work at mouse-height. But the insurance "carve-outs would effectively prevent artists doing public art and mural projects or installing their own work in galleries." - The Guardian (Australian Associated Press)

How To Make The Past Look Like The Past

Set designers say sledgehammers are important - and don't forget eBay. - The New York Times

Studio Ghibli’s Miyazaki Flunks Retirement, Again

He started saying he'd retire before Gen-Z was born - and his new film, The Boy and the Heron, cements the feeling of hope from his fans. - The Verge

The Vulture Capitalists Who Now Own Simon And Schuster

"If you train an AI model on Danielle Steel’s nearly 200 books and write a new one, somebody has to own the rights." - The Atlantic

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